Re-enactors show soldiers' life around time of 1862 battle

Tim Seaman, left, Mongo Thornton, Lynn Bull and Bobby Richter, all members of Andrew's Battery, cover their closest to the cannon as they complete a cannon firing demonstration at the Goldsborough Bridge Battlefield.

Civil War re-enactors representing troops who defended Goldsboro against attack in 1862 put on a show for local residents Saturday, re-creating a Confederate encampment and demonstrating rifle and cannon fire on the site of the real battle. The living...